CHAPTER 1: DON’T FALL UNDER THE BUS

Ramesh, my boss, seemed strangely nervous as we walked into Lee’s office. And that had me worried.

This was the first time I had seen Ramesh anything less than confident in front of other leaders … at any level.

Lee was a fresh transfer from the field to corporate. That seemed like a bizarre career change, going from sales to IT at a senior management level. You would have thought he’d have figured out what he really wanted to do a long time ago. I didn’t know what Lee’s real title was yet, only that he was probably close to Ramesh in level.

Ramesh usually treated me like I was one bad decision away from being fired; so it seemed totally out of character that he was dragging me along to what he had confessed ...

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